Rama-Lama Ding Dong

I've been reading Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama today... Well, re-reading it, actually, as I first encountered the book sometime in my teenage years. But I picked up a used copy at a library sale a little while back, and I thought it'd be good to re-read it sometime before the movie came out. (Assuming it actually does, of course... I get the impression that it's currently sort of in development limbo.) Considering the frightening things I've heard about the film version of I, Robot[*], I should probably be worried about the prospect of yet another classic science fiction novel being utterly ruined in the transition to film. But, you know, the book version of Rama really is nothing but a special effects extravaganza, so maybe I can take hope from the thought that it'd be kind of hard to mess it up...


[*] I mean, I thought I was joking when I said that they'd probably gotten a model to play Susan Calvin!